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Two music festivals in Norway are both aiming to become a blueprint for a green global music festival movement in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme. The HoveFestival - a rock event that this year featured major acts including Beck, Duffy and rapper Jay-Z - and Canal Street - a jazz and blues festival that opens today and features John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, and the Waterboys...
Here’s the top sellers at Stinkweeds for the week of July 15-22. 1. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive (Vagrant) 2. Beck - Modern Guilt (DGC) 3. Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (XL) 4. Fleet Foxes - s/t (Sub Pop) // MP3: White Winter Hymnal 5. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop) // [...]
Here is what's coming out today ... Movies 21 (Blu-Ray) (#9 in the DVDPS Top 40) 21: SE Batman, The: Season #5 Bird (SE) Brutal Massacre: A Comedy Case Closed: Season #1 Earth: The Biography High And Low: Criterion Collection La Ink: Season #1 Las Vegas: Season #5 Mummy, The: SE (1932) Robot Chicken: Star Wars Spaced: The Complete Series (#6 in the DVDPS Top 40) Teen Titans: Season #5 Transformers...
Collateral Damage sent me a link to this goofy but fairly amusing boy-band-inspired music video for Eppendorf’s epMotion. It’s all about a new automated device or process (or something) for “pipetting,” which involves transporting measured volumes of liquid in research...
Granted, the 'Give Me Credit' here is in reference to downloading albums via iTunes and not being able to read the fine print on the studios, sessions artists, songwriting partners and the special / revealing 'Thank You' shout-out sections. A very strong argument- and hallelujah, Jill Sobule does in fact mention, albeit ever so lightly, Katy Perry. "But there is one thing that has been bugging me...
Former Jam and Style Council frontman Paul Weller releases his latest solo effort, 22 Dreams, stateside tomorrow, a disc that features guest appearances by Noel Gallagher, Graham Coxon, and others. Other albums I can strongly recommend include the Avett...
Scott got back quickly with the dogs - his Dad drove over half way to meet him. Bailey was active: but poor old Ryan just lay there: We didn't go anywhere so just spent time reading, snoozing, listening to music (downloaded new Beck album plus two new audiobooks) and eventually the pool: Scott cooked salmon on the BBQ and Jo made up noodles - Lucy mixed an alcoholic smoothie and I did the G & T's!...
Am I the only one upset that when you buy a song on iTunes you don't get any of the info you used to get in a CD booklet, like the names of the producer and the session players? And I miss reading the lyrics as I hear a song for the first time.
Well, I was about to turn in when a visitor alerted me to Too Poppy's excellent preview of the forthcoming Matthew Sweet album, Sunshine Lies. Casting my mind back thousands of seconds to yesterday, I remembered a pleasant encounter with two songs from the album at a PLAGUE of ANGELS. I had them slotted for inclusion in the next Music of the Sphere post, which, as it turns out, is this one. I'm
Anti-gay reggae takes another hit today. Hearing some hate among Elephant Man and T.K.O’s lyrics, the German government may put their albums on its Index of Harmful Materials. Though not a ban, the move would “limit” the artists’ marketing range. Via Deutsche Welle: The index includes items such as media which glorify war and violence and [...]
The 38th annual Bumbershoot Festival is almost here, sort of. The three-day event, which takes place at the 74-acre Seattle Center in downtown Seattle, is set to begin August 30 and last till September 1st. The 2008 Bumbershoot music lineup includes Beck , Stone Temple Pilots , Death Cab For Cutie , Band Of Horses , Tapes n’ Tapes and many more. Aside from live music, the festival also features three...
Music News: 'Modern Guilt,' 'Mamma Mia' crack the top 10 -- Beck's "Modern Guilt" and the soundtrack to the film of "Mamma Mia" were the only debuts in the top 10 as Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" held onto No. 1 for a second week in a row.
I know rhythm games have taken America by storm when I feel compelled to make a separate update about the newest Guitar Hero and Rock Band news that has come out of E3. However, that's not to say there...
MGMT's Critically Acclaimed Debut Album, 'Oracular Spectacular' Breaks the
SoundScan 100K Mark
NEW YORK, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brooklyn-based futurist rock/pop
ensemble MGMT will follow the group's sizzling summer concert schedule
opening for Beck on the post-modern musical collagist's forthcoming autumn
tour beginning September 19 in San Diego (please see full MGMT/Beck
itinerary following).
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